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Sticks and stones have made me smarter
It's words that cut me under my armor

Expecting another run-of-the-mill indie songstress upon first listen to St. Vincent, "Paris" crushed expectations. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) knows her way around a guitar and uses clever, uneasy wordplay; both of these take "Paris" from eerily-catchy to complete devastation as Paris, the city, burns.